Reframing Your Reality: Part 2

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We often assume that we see ourselves and the world around us accurately. But psychologist Alia Crum says that our perceptions are always filtered through our mindsets — and these mindsets shape our lives in subtle but profound ways. In the second of two episodes, Alia explains how our beliefs about food and exercise affect our bodies.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:03.5	In the 1997 drama, Life is Beautiful, Roberto Benini plays an Italian bookshop owner.
0:10.2	He is Jewish and during the Holocaust, the Nazis deport him and his small son to a concentration
0:16.3	camp.
0:19.3	Surrounded by squalor and fear, the father has a choice.
0:26.6	He can tell his young son the truth that they have been captured by evil people and
0:30.6	are likely facing death.
0:32.8	Or he can make up a fantastic story to cover up the horrors of the concentration camp.
0:43.8	As the guards bark instructions in German and go over the punishments that await the prisoners,
0:49.4	the former bookshop owner explains to his son that they are only playing an elaborate
0:54.4	game.
0:55.4	It's designed to put players through a series of difficult challenges, painfully little
1:00.0	food, cramped quarters, even violence.
1:04.5	The goal is to survive these challenges, ideally without crying or making a fuss.
1:10.2	The winner gets a prize that sounds amazing to the little boy.
1:14.4	He gets to ride a tank.
1:17.7	I'm battle!
1:20.7	Life is beautiful when town to win a raft of awards, including a best actor, Oscar for
1:25.0	Roberto Benini.
1:26.8	Millions laughed and wept as they heard the story of the brave father who reinvented reality
1:32.8	to help his son survive the Holocaust.
1:41.3	Today on Hidden Brain, we continue our exploration of when and how much our perceptions of reality
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